The Country School Champion du lieu suivant : New Albany, Kansas • 1

wi vi it ui in Successor to tbe School Uisitor. Devoted to the Interests of the Common Schools. Volume! New Albany, 'Kansas, January, 1599. Numbers. Echoes from the State As-4 sedation.

Prof. T. TL Jackson: "The com mon school law of Kansas that enables the city schools to hold school tor eight months and pay their teach ers $50 per month, while the country schools have but three or four months school and pay per month, is not a just law." This a viitual acknowledgement of thesunerioritv. of learned in the school wheie many grades can be taught than in the school that teaches but one." Not only "more to be learned" but more is learned as has often before been stated. Can you supply the seven words omitted? They must all be formed of the.

same six letters: A sat in his gray, Watching the moonbeam's Py, On a keg that in the brushes lay And the leaves with their took up the song, Thou the brave, thou the strong, To thee doth of great battles belong, John Barleycorn, my king. From "Mental Nuts." country schools' With half the amount Don't Forget the Old Folks. Don't forget the old folks, Love them more and more, As they turn their longing eyes Toward that golden shore Let your words be tender, Loving, sott and low; Let their last days be the best They have known below. Chorus. Don't forget the old folks, Life will soon be o'er; Guide them till their weary feet Tread the golden shore.

Don't forget poor father, With his failing sight, With his locks once thick and brown, Scanty now and white. Tho' he may be childish, Still do you be kind; Think of him as years ago, With his master mind. Cho. Don't forget dear mother With the furrowed brow, All the light of other years Time has faded now. Memory is waning.

Soon its light will fail, Guide her gently till she stands Sate within the vale. Cho. The rage for millions in education is doing school work great injury. On one side it discourages by overpowering, on the other it weakens by luxury A simple life may be infinitely useful so a plain education Three years are sufficient to a graduate from a country school to secure a ment.l dis cipline that will make him master of himself, and to obtain a knowledge of the sciences, mathematics and literature in their highest elements, so that he may feel equipped for life. R.

H. Holbrook. of schooling of the city schools the country school puts out the better What might be the result had they the same length of term? Prof W. S. Picken: "The country scholar has the advantage over the pupil, inasmuch as in the country school they teap the benefit of the recitation of all the more advanced classes." Country teachers have known this all along, but we are pleased to note that others are ''seeing the light." Mr.

Baughman: 'it is harder on the teacher handle ten cr fifteen classes in all grades each day than it is to handle just one grade." Miss Graham: "The country teach-er certainly has more work than the city ttacher, but the country pupils have the aivaniage Quite my brother and sistei; the country teacher has more work and the work is harder, and this is one reason such grand results are obtained. We will not be so unvind as to say that the apathy to work so frequently manifested by city children is due to the example of the teacher, but it is surely true to a considerable measure "as is the teacher so is the It is safe to say that the teacher who does much -hard work will be found in charge of pupils who are under the "influence." Prize Winners. Jennie Ditto of district No. 32, Gehard Buerskens of District No. 100, Carrie Gaines of district No.

103, and Zada Taylor of district No 70, were each successful in obtaining one ot the prizes offered in a recent number of The Champion for best specimen of penmanship. Alice 1 Longfellow, the poet's daughter, says Hiawatha was pronounced by her father "He awa tha," the accent on the first syllable being slighter than on the "wa," the sounded like "a'' in "was" not "war'' as sometimes used. One who does not have the perse verance to get an education when op. portunity offers, will never have the energy to properly use one could it be donated to him. If we never did anything until we found something to do that, we thought everyone would appreciate, life would be a long dreary waste of donothingness.

Mr. Knight: "There is more to be.